And it begins: “The text is visceral, saturated with paranoia and reminiscent of J.G. Ballard…The novel has a cut-up quality, a composition style favoured by David Bowie and William S. Burroughs, which gives the impression that the novel can be rearranged at will, read in multiple ways, like an unsettling choose-your-own adventure. Authority is a work of sublime beauty and darkness, one takes neither the side of Area X nor those investigating it; instead it’s a study in change. Jeff VanderMeer is one of the finest contemporary American authors and the third and final Southern Reach novel is sure to be quite spectacular, though you may want some light relief in the meantime.”
Posted on: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 22:02:58 +0000
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